Don’t be fooled, cancel culture is all about power—and holding those with the most of it accountable, writes Ernest Owens.
In November 2019, when I wrote a guest op-ed in,” I wasn’t prepared for the backlash I would quickly receive.
Timberlake’s rather petty response back to me led individuals from Black Twitter to jump to my defense. Even so, it didn’t protect me from his slew of fans who harassed me online for days following the controversy. It wouldn’t be until five years later that he would publicly apologize to Jackson . At long last, there was some form of vindication. But the impact of that evening on Twitter stayed with me. It confirmed that those in power don’t want to be called on the carpet.
In July 2020, following the massive impact of racial uprisings that lead to an increase of social justice awareness and accountability, more than 150 cultural luminaries signed “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate” that was published inmagazine. It claimed that cancel culture is “an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty.
The list went on and on until I was agitated enough to write a book to tell all of these people to essentially shut up.is a book that redefines what power is and how it can be checked. No, not everything is being canceled—and no, cancel culture isn’t anything new. Before there was cancel culture, there was callout culture, political correctness, witch hunts, and every other trendy dog-whistle you can think of that attempted to slander those seeking accountability.
Answer: Because throughout society, history has shown us that when the marginalized mobilize, it spells trouble for the powers that be.
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